Just four on Wednesday......

7:56 am - Thursday - September 12th - LPG&RVR - 47° F, humidity 79%, wind 1 mph out of the north by northwest.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 69° F.  On this date in 2014 TLE and I were watching another Cape Blanco sunset.....

 In 24 hours we went from 85° F Tuesday to 69° F on Wednesday here in the Pitt River Valley, and with the drop in temperature came 6 hours of rain beginning at 3 pm....that was not expected, but much appreciated.  For the first time in a few weeks I wore pants, and only took off my hoody sweatshirt once for about 30 minutes.  There was this unmistakable chill in the air, which never left all day.

After 3 days of renting out the older golf carts we returned to renting the newer Yamahas, but I only staged 5 to begin the day, and we only rented four of those.  All four carts had been returned by 1 pm, and for the first time in months there was not one single person working on the course, or playing golf....I had the entire place to myself....

....with a lack of customers there was little to do so I decided to spend some time doing a deep cleaning of the forest on each side of the driving range.  I've done several deep cleanings this year, so there aren't a lot of unfound balls out there, but I did manage to garner half of a 5 gallon bucket of the errant balls.  I also managed to mow large grass area at the large pavilion after the current group departed around mid morning, and then spent the rest of my morning mowing tent sites 4-10.  The only area left un-mowed are sites 11-20....the back in sites, plus the grass around the Night Registration Office, and I'll leave that for my counterpart.

By 1:30 pm I had the four Yamaha gassers washed, and stowed along with the 5th Yamaha, which did not get rented.  This was probably our slowest day since last April when we first arrived.  As I wrote previously, the rain began around 3 pm, so my day was over.  I headed for home, took a nice, long, hot shower followed by a nap of suitable duration before returning to retrieve TLE from the Clubhouse a little after 5 pm.  Our days off this week are Thursday through Sunday, and on Monday (if it doesn't rain) we'll begin punching the 18 greens, the putting green, and the 'sod farm' green, which is a strip of putting green type grass about 20' wide, and 150' long out by the 8th hole.  There is also a comparably sized swath of fairway grass right next to it, but we don't 'punch' that.  We should be done punching the greens by October 1st, and then there are just two weeks left in the season.  The golf course and RV park will officially close for the winter on October 13th, and we'll be on our way south to begin our winter adventure.

The rain which began at 3 pm finally tapered off around 9 pm, and left the park nicely watered, and the dust settled.  It appears we may have more rain early next week, in which case the beginning of the green punching may be delayed a few days, but it will begin, for sure, next week.  And with the end of the season comes to an end the weekly irrigation of the trees which border the upper pull through sites, as well as the lower gravel pull through sites.  I didn't mow around the tee boxes for which I am responsible for the first time in weeks, so I may only mow them one more time before we leave.

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